Unable to submit extension: data_collection_permissions catch-22

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@Stephane_Duran

The validator shows these contradictory errors:

1. Without the key: ERROR “data_collection_permissions is required”
2. With “required: ”: ERROR “must have minimum 1 item”
3. With “required: [“privacy_policy”]”: ERROR “invalid value”
4. With “required: [“external_data_collection”]”: ERROR “invalid value”

Point 2: If your extension doesn’t collect any data, then “data_collection_permissions.required” must have the value [“none”]
(see Firefox built-in consent for data collection and transmission | Firefox Extension Workshop > No data collection)
Points 3 and 4: “privacy_policy” and “external_data_collection” are invalid values for “data_collection_permissions.required” and “data_collection_permissions.optional”
(see Firefox built-in consent for data collection and transmission | Firefox Extension Workshop for the list of valid values)

@Stephane_Duran

The validation also shows:
“This feature requires Firefox 140” (which doesn’t exist yet)

I’m currently running Firefox 146.0.1.
Maybe you mean the ESR?
The newest ESR is 140, according to https://whattrainisitnow.com/ and:

Possible issue with new data_collection_permissions soon to be required?

As mentioned in the blog, the data collection permissions is supported only from version 140: So you should change your strict min version to 140. This is also nicely aligned with the latest ESR version - Firefox ESR 140. Note that majority of users will either be running latest release or ESR release, so there really should be almost nobody using Firefox 139 anymore.